Description:

A wonderful Thanksgiving or Christmas side dish. I adapted this from my Aunt Anna's version by adding the orange.

Source:

Linda Weissert

Serves/Makes:8

Ingredients

• 1 lb (.5 kg). fresh cranberries (Be careful! A bag of cranberries is NOT a pound anymore!)
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) sugar
• 1 can flaked coconut
• 3 oranges
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) chopped pecans
• 2 cups (475 ml) miniature marshmallows
• 8 oz (224 grm). Cool Whip

Preparation

• Chop cranberries in a food processor, pour into large bowl and mix with sugar.
• Let sit overnight.
• The next day zest the rind of the 3 oranges and then cut the oranges in half like a grapefruit.
• Cut the orange halves as if you were sectioning a grapefruit and remove the orange sections.
• Mix the cranberries, orange zest, orange sections, coconut, pecans and marshmallows.
• Fold in Cool Whip lightly.
• Serve on lettuce leaves.

Comments

Tart and sweet and refreshingly light.